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The Presentation hy the People of 
Virginia of a Copy of Houdon s 
Statue of George Washington 
to the United Kingdom of Great 
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Report oj the Commission 



































































To the General Assembly of Virginia: 

That it might bear testimony to an ancient friendship, pro¬ 
mote harmony and goodwill between the English-speaking nations, 
and worthily celebrate the conclusion of a hundred years of un¬ 
broken peace between England and America, the General Assembly 
of Virginia resolved in 1914 to present to the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland a bronze copy of Houdon’s famous 
statue of George Washington. The necessary enactments were 
passed, the gift accepted, the statue cast by the Gorham Company, 
and the Commission was making its preparations to sail when the 
tempest of the World War broke over Europe and made such 
errands of peace impracticable. 

After the conclusion of peace the long-delayed arrangements 
w T ere resumed and completed, and on June 30, 1921, in the pres¬ 
ence of an immense concourse, with much pomp and ceremony, 
the statue was presented and unveiled in historic Trafalgar 
Square. The presentation address was made by the chairman of 
the commission, President Henry Louis Smith, of Washington 
and Lee University, representing the Governor of Virginia ; it was 
received in behalf of His Majesty’s government by the Eight Hon¬ 
orable, the Marquis Curzon, of Kedleston, and the statue, amid 
the cheers of the vast multitude which filled the great square and 
St. Martin’s Lane, was unveiled by Miss Judith Brewer, daughter 
of one of the commissioners. 

The act authorizing the presentation provided that the Com¬ 
mission should be composed of the Governor, who was authorized 
in case he could not act to appoint a personal representative, the 
Lieutenant-Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and 
the Clerk of the House of Delegates. These, at the time of the 
presentation, were as follows: 

Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and 
Lee University, representing Hon. Westmoreland 
Davis, Governor, Chairman of the Commission. 

B. F. Buchanan, Lieutenant-Governor. 

Bichard L. Brewer, Jr., Speaker of the House of Dele¬ 
gates. 

John W. Williams, Clerk of the House of Delegates and 
Keeper of the Bolls of Virginia. 



8 Presentation of Copy of Houdon’s Statue of Washington 


Accompanying the commissioners were Mrs. Henry Louis 
Smith, Mrs. R. L. Brew 7 er, Miss Judith Brewer, Mrs. John W. 
Williams, and John W. Williams, Jr. The whole party, accepting 
a formal invitation extended before their departure, w T ere the 
official guests of the British government from June 25th to July 
4th at the Carlton Hotel. 

The Commission, sailing from New York on the Lapland, 
June 11th, reached Plymouth on Sunday, June 19th, where they 
w r ere met by government officials and shown every possible cour¬ 
tesy, arriving in London that night. On Monday the delegation, 
as their first official act, called upon Ambassador Harvey, and 
extended to him a formal invitation to be present on June 30th, 
and take part in the presentation ceremonies. They did not, 
however, see him again during their entire stay in England. 

On Tuesday, June 21st, the party were the guests of the Sul- 
grave Institution at the formal opening of Sulgrave Manor, the 
old Washington homestead, in Northamptonshire. It was an 
eventful day and a charming journey, and the Commission wishes 
to record its appreciation of the many courtesies shown by Mr. 
John A. Stewart, president, Mr. A. B. Humphrey, secretary, and 
Mr. Perrin, the London representative of the Sulgrave Institution. 

As the period of official entertainment did not begin till June 
25th, the party visited Edinburgh and the Scotch Highlands, and 
returning to London on Saturday took possession of the sumptuous 
apartments reserved for them at the Carlton Hotel. 

The appended programs of the daily entertainments between 
June 25th and July 4th will give some idea of the lavishness and 
zeal of our hosts, but no list of entertainments, however splendid, 
could reveal the universal friendliness, the unaffected democratic 
cordiality, the overflowing hospitality which made the events and 
experiences of the next ten days as unique as they were unfor¬ 
gettable. 

Mr. J. Conway Davies, head of the Hospitality Division of the 
British government, was at once our expert guide, our charming 
companion, and our infallible encyclopedia of British etiquette. 

At the Carlton our party had its special table, waiters, and 
menus, while every one connected with the great hotel seemed to 
take special pleasure in showing special attentions to the “Vir¬ 
ginia Delegation.” 




to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 


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KING GEORGE V. 


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10 Presentation of Copy of Iloudon’s Statue of Washington 


A few of the more outstanding social events were as follows: 

The special reception given to the delegation by the King 
and Queen at Buckingham Palace on June 27th. Here all feel¬ 
ings of awe and strangeness were at once removed by the demo¬ 
cratic cordiality of their Majesties. King George’s merry humor, 
his keen interest in and knowledge of American affairs, his en¬ 
thusiastic praise of former Ambassador Davis, his ever-recurring 
expressions of friendliness toward America, and his cordial ap¬ 
preciation of Virginia’s action, combined with a vivacity and in¬ 
tellectual alertness for which his pictures had not prepared us, 
not only turned a formal ceremon}^ into a charming visit, but 
entirely transformed our conceptions of royalty in general and 
of King George in particular. 

These impressions were deepened by the special reception given 
by H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, to the four commissioners at 
York House a day later. The charming modesty, simplicity, and 
unaffected democracy of the boy-prince made a deep impression 
on the party and explained the idolatrous enthusiasm of the peo¬ 
ple for their future king. 

The Lord Mayor of London and his most gracious lady gave 
the party a formal luncheon in the great hall of the Mansion 
House with many distinguished guests. 

The English-Speaking Union gave us an imposing luncheon 
with four or five hundred covers, at which Hon. Winston 
Churchill presided, and Lady Astor was among the speakers. 

Dr. Peter Giles, Master of Immanuel College of the University 
of Cambridge, gave the Virginia party a formal luncheon in the 
historic dining-hall of the University. 

At the conclusion of the presentation exercises of the 30tli a 
government lucheon of exceptional magnificence was given at the 
Hotel Carlton, with a long array of England’s most distinguished 
leaders as guests and Lord Lee, of Fareham, as presiding officer. 

Teas, receptions, and garden parties were given by the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, Lady Darwin, Hon. and Mrs. Fortescue, 
the American University Union, and by Lady Astor at Cliveden. 
Two theater parties, with specially arranged visits to Hampton 
Court, Windsor Palace, Eton, Westminster Abbey, and other noted 
places, a marvelous trip up the Thames, an al fresco dinner at 
Maiden Head, and other courtesies innumerable filled every day 



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of our stay with fresh evidences of British friendship and hos¬ 
pitality. 

Especial mention, however, must be made of the formal dinners 
with fifty guests at each which were given by Lady Markham and 
Lady Astor at their wonderful London homes. Here was assem¬ 
bled a bewildering array of the greatest personages in England, 
the splendor of the function in each case only outdone by the 
charming friendliness of these two lovely examples of English 
and American womanhood. In fact of all the memories of our 
wonderful experience of British hospitality none lie nearer our 
hearts than that of these two charming women who seemed to 
adopt the “Virginia party” as near relatives. 

The climax, of course, of the whole visit was reached in the 
stately presentation exercises in Trafalgar Square at 12 o’clock on 
Thursday, June 30th. The day was perfect and the vast square 
w T ith its adjoining areas packed with countless thousands from 
every quarter. 

The speech of presentation by the chairman of the Commission 
and the response by Marquis Curzon, of Ivedleston, printed else¬ 
where in this pamphlet, w r ere delivered in the National Gallery, 
in front of which, on its marble pedestal, the statue stood covered 
with English and American flags. It was a notable assembly of 
England’s greatest men and women, with twenty Union and Con¬ 
federate Veterans directly in front of the speakers, and the breath¬ 
less attention and repeated applause bore testimony to their ap¬ 
preciation of Virginia’s gift and her plea for Anglo-American 
friendship. 

Immediately following the addresses the statue was unveiled 
amid thunders of applause, and the Virginia delegation, with a 
distinguished company of invited guests, adjourned to the Carlton 
for the magnificent government lucheon given in honor of the 
event. 

On July 4th, after the close of the formal visit, the party made 
a short trip, at its own expense, to France and Switzerland, sailed 
from Havre on July 20th, reaching Montreal on the 30th, where 
again every possible courtesy was extended by the officials, and 
thence via New York dispersed to their respective homes. 

In closing this brief and inadequate report your Commission 
wishes again to bear testimony to the amazing hospitality of the 
British government and their deep appreciation of Virginia’s 



12 Presentation of Copy of UoudorCs Statue of Washington 


action; to the unaffected and democratic cordiality of the English 
nobility; to the warm friendship for America which was every¬ 
where apparent, and to the universal and almost affectionate kind¬ 
ness of everybody from the King and Queen to the humblest rail¬ 
way porter. 

We cannot but believe that our visit and Virginia’s gift con¬ 
tributed something toward that Anglo-American friendship and co- 
operation upon which, more than upon any other one factor, the 
future peace and harmony of the world now depend. 

Respectfully submitted, 

HENRY LOUIS SMITH, Chairman, 

B. F. BUCHANAN, 

. RICHARD L. BREWER, Jr., 

JOHN W. WILLIAMS. 



Presentation and Acceptance 









Address of 

DR. HENRY LOUIS SMITH, 

President of Washington and Lee University and Chairman 
of the Virginia Commission. 

Seven long and eventful years ago, that she might fittingly celebrate the 
close of a century of unbroken peace and give expression to her equally 
unbroken friendship, the Commonwealth of Virginia, by unanimous action 
of her legislature, resolved to present to the government and people of 
Great Britain this bronze statue of her most illustrious son. 

Little did she realize in those days of deceptive tranquility, that the 
resistless forces of world development were even then preparing another 
and sublimer celebration—and culmination—of that century of peace. 

Little did we dream that before our tribute of love could cross the seas 
our ancient friendship would be re-cemented and glorified by comradeship 
in suffering and partnership in noble deeds. 

Those early days of 1914 seem already strange and mythical and far 
away. A world-wide and aggressive campaign of slander and detraction, 
re-enforced by the success of German competition and the results of the 
Boer war, had produced a world-wide feeling of uneasiness as to England’s 
future. Even her friends had begun to wonder whether there might not be 
some truth in the confident German assertion that long years of ease and 
sloth and luxury had rotted out the old English heart of oak and disin¬ 
tegrated the bonds that held her vast and polyglot empire together. 

Yet here, as often in similar times of crisis, the amazing and incredible 
happened, when the normal and expected would have bankrupted civilization. 

The swift and marvelous awakening of the old English spirit at its 
best, eager for every imaginable sacrifice; the stubborn heroism and amazing 
unity of her whole population; the scientific skill and inconceivable speed 
with which all England was transformed into a vast military work shop; 
the revelation of inventive genius and scientific efficiency and resistless 
energy never dreamed of before; the splendid and passionate loyalty with 
which her far-flung colonies swarmed across the seas and threw themselves 
into the fires of hell to save their imperiled Motherland—this no human 
wisdom could have predicted, no mere logic can account for. It was a 
modern miracle wrought as of old by the will and purpose of almighty 
God, the affirmative answer of the human spirit to the call of the divine. 

And as the true meaning and vast issues of the mighty conflict slowly 
revealed themselves to the American people a no less amazing drama was 
enacted on our side of the Atlantic. 

A stubbornly isolated and peace-loving nation, her politics often domi¬ 
nated by English-hating hyphenates, her intellectuals kneeling with unani¬ 
mous devotion at the shrine of German culture, her whole people fattening 
beyond imagination on the profits of other people’s wars—this was the 
America transformed almost over-night into a nation of a hundred million 
war-crusaders, her domestic quarrels forgotten, her hyphens obliterated, her 


16 Presentation of Copy of Houdorfs Statue of Washington 


war-profits cast aside, her whole people from the lakes to the gulf on fiie 
with a fury of battle-ardor and a unanimity of self-sacrifice never known 
before in American history—this was the long-delayed but glorious answer 
of American to the call of the world’s need. 

But of deeper significance to humanity than this spiritual rebirth of 
England and America has been their celebration of a hundred jeais of 
peace by the heartfelt renewal of their ancient and unforgotten kinship. 

When German militarism, nurtured to giant strength and satanic ferocity, 
was hacking its bloody way thru France and Belgium, when the night of 
medieval tyranny seemed settling back upon the earth, when the hopes and 
institutions and blood-bought liberties of Anglo-Saxon civilization hung trem¬ 
bling in the balance, then these two great Anglo-Saxon empires, waked by 
the spirit of God as from an evil dream, realized their essential unity, the 
littleness of their past and present differences, the height and depth and 
strength of their old-time kinship. Fighting and dying side by side they 
learned, for all time we trust, that blood—warm, living, sacrificial, brotheis 
blood—is thicker far than water. 

It was a kindly providence, therefore, that by delaying Virginia’s gift 
has so glorified and hallowed it. And surely no commission was ever en¬ 
trusted with a more precious token, a more urgent plea, or a more con¬ 
genial message. 

Its chairman is a most unworthy spokesman, yet there is a certain fit¬ 
ness in his selection, for lie represents an institution of learning whose 
history is interwoven from the beginning with that of W ashington and of 
the old colonial days when England and America were one. 

Founded in 1749 under the British crown, it was deliberately chosen 


by George Washington to bear his name and utilize his wealth that learning 
might temper and uplift his country’s newfound liberty. 

After the wreck and ruin of the civil war it was refounded and rebuilt 
by Washington’s great kinsman, the immortal leader of the Confederate 
armies, who, having no money, gave himself to the institution and endowed 
it forever with his matchless example, his sacred dust, and his incomparable 
name. 

Across its velvet lawn the benignant figure of Washington looks down 
upon the chapel and tomb of Lee. 

Within that sacred shrine, on the right of Virginia’s holy of holies, is 
Beale’s splendid portrait of George Washington in the scarlet uniform of a 
British officer as he fought with Braddock. On the left is the majestic 
figure of his fellow-rebel, Robert Edward Lee, in full Confederate grey. And 
over each regal head, their battle-fields forgotten in a common homage to 
the mighty dead, droops a cluster of glorious flags, all dear to Virginia’s 
heart. The stars and bars of the vanished Confederacy, that hallowed flag 
of memory and tears, the stars and stripes of the re-United States, with not 
a rent remaining, and the meteor flag of England, the world’s chief symbol 
and promoter of law and ordered liberty. 

Outgrown antagonisms, forgotten enmities, temporary defeats, apparent 
disloyalties, transient and unimportant political alignments, all submerged 



to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 


17 



WESTMORELAND DAVIS 
Governor of Virginia 








18 Presentation of Copy of Iloudon's Statue of II ashing ton 

in a higher allegiance, all bearing witness to the essential unity and mag¬ 
nanimity of the Anglo-Saxon race, its ability to forgive without forgetting, 
its innate reverence for the supremacy of the individual conscience over all 
lesser loyalties! 

Virginia’s Gift 

It is in the spirit of this hallowed shrine that Virginia has selected the 
gift that accompanies her message of love. 

In this spirit as her messengers we hereby present to the government 
and people of Great Britain this bronze likeness of one who forsook her flag, 
rejected her sovereignty, and fought against her king. And with splendid 
and characteristic magnanimity she answers the challenge by placing this 
one-time rebel on a pedestal amid the mighty monuments and memories of 
Trafalgar Square. 

Glory of English art*, the gathered treasures of a thousand years of 
culture; glory of English manhood, with stirring memories of Copenhagen 
and Trafalgar and the Nile; greater glory of English womanhood, gladly 
dying, in loneliness and obscurity, that her country’s cause might live! 

A tiny bit of bronze in this goodly company, yet it represents the best 
Virginia has to give, the flower and fruit of our western civilization, the 
embodiment of our Anglo-Saxon ideals of manhood and character, that im¬ 
mortal product of English ancestry and American rearing, George Washing¬ 
ton, Father and Founder of our American republic. 

In his matchless character were combined and concentrated the quali¬ 
ties and characteristics of both England and America at their best. 

In habitual reserve, assured authority, and quick resentment of personal 
indignities, he was an English aristocrat of the highest type. Yet among 
naked savages and wilderness pioneers his ready fellowship and cordial 
American democracy made him a universal favorite. Ilis English love of 
home was only equaled by his American devotion to little children. 

A knightly cavalier and polished courtier in social circles, he was from 
his very boyhood a most rigid Puritan in sobriety, chastity, and uncom¬ 
promising fidelity to duty. 

His Anglo-Virginian hospitality, free and open-handed to the verge of 
extravagance, was made possible by his energy in business affairs and his 
executive ability as a money-maker. 

A soldier from his youth, lifted to the heights of military glory, he 
ever hated war and subordinated the military to the civil power. 

To the dogged courage and grim determination of his fighting English 
forbears he added the impetuous daring and quick resourcefulness of the 
American pioneer. 

The splendid leadership with which he won his country’s independence 
was, if possible, surpassed by the patience and diplomatic skill and far-seeing 
statesmanship with which, through toilsome and trying years, he solved the 
problems and laid the foundations of the new republic. 


* The site of the Washington statue is immediately in front of the National Gallery, 
near the monuments to Lord Nelson and Edith Cavell. 








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And when to these is added his purity of motive, his entire freedom 
from selfishness and personal ambition, his lofty serenity ill times of defefit 
and disaster, and his sublime and unwaverihg trust in a higher power, no 
wonder that he seems set apart as a superior being, hardly formed of human 
clay. 

As such a character enriches and ennobles the whole world, so does 
such a memorial add lustre and distinction even to Trafalgar Square. 

And as these restless tides of cosmopolitan humanity ebb and flow 
through this throbbing heart of England’s empire, may these Anglo-Saxon 
monuments, now and forever, teach to a groping and bewildered world these 
uplifting Anglo-Saxon lessons: 

That all true greatness, whether of an individual or of a nation, is al¬ 
ways and forever moral , never merely material; that the ultimate test and 
unerring measure of human civilization is not its wealth or commerce, but 
the characters it produces; that the most momentous question confronting 
Britain and America today is not what we have nor what we will get, but 
what we are and what our children will become. 


Virginia’s Message. 


This is Virginia’s glorious gift to Great Britain, and with Virginia’s gift 
goes her whole heart. Her messengers are but a tiny group, lost amid the 
swarming thousands hurrying across the Atlantic, and she speaks through 
a single insignificant human voice, scarce heard among the devilish cries of 
hate that fill the world today, but they are the messengers and messages of 
love, the only rebuilder of our wrecked and prostrate world. 

And love, in spie of its temporary eclipse, is still omnipotent and eternal, 
the sweetest thing in the world, the most contagious thing in the world, the 
mightiest thing in the world; and as earth’s restless oceans swing to and 
fro to the changing moon, so shall earth’s restless millions yet ebb and flow 
responsive to her divine control. 

It is in fulfilment of this high mission that we bring to the government 
and people of Great Britain assurance of the undivided fellowship and ever- 
increasing friendship not only of our beloved Virginia, mother of States and 
statesmen, but of the equally undivided South, and of the great body of our 
American citizens from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We confidently assure 
you that the shrill cries of hate you sometimes hear are but the clamor of 
a narrow and turbulent shore-line, not the voice of the great deep that lies 
beyond. 

We rejoice that a thousand ties are every day binding more closely to¬ 
gether our gigantic and peace-loving democracies. 


With our unmatched English tongue now clearly destined to become the 
chief treasury and vehicle of the world’s civilization; with our wealth of 
English literature, centering in and radiating from our blessed English 
Bible; with our common reverence for the purity of womanhood, the sanctity 


oi' the home, and the rights of the weak; with our common admiration for 
unselfishness and the spirit of service, our universal Anglo-Saxon instinct 
for justice and passion for liberty, our common recognition of the imperative 




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of conscience, the rights of the individual, the fatherhood of God, and the 
essential brotherhood of man—with these multiplied and mighty bonds, so 
recently softened in the furnace of a common suffering and welded anew on 
the hard anvil of war, this is a world friendship that has come to stay, 
and may the God of England and America doom to speedy destruction every 
effort and agency that attempts to weaken or undermine it. 

To this assurance of abiding friendship, in which all America joins, 
Virginia would add, to her sorrowing and heavy-laden motherland, a message 
of sympathy and hope peculiarly her own. 

She too has known the hellish aftermath of war, its shattered industries, 
its new-made graves, its appalling problems of social and economic recon¬ 
struction. 

Her present happiness and prosperity confirm these inspiring truths, 
which she learned amid the chaos and sorrows of 1865 and would share with 
the sorely stricken England of 1921. 

That the money and ships and machinery destroyed by war are not 
the essentials of permanent treasures of human civilization but only its 
tools and trappings, already on their way to the scrapheap. That a nation’s 
richest assets are the faith and courage and constancy of its citizens. That 
while vegetables grow best in sunshine and balmy air, these finer growths 
of manhood and womanhood are blighted by too much sun and multiply 
without limit in times of storm and darkness. 

In these invisible but priceless assets, piled high in the bank of heaven, 
England is today immeasurably rich, in spite of her huge debts and tragic 
losses; and they will yet, as in Virginia’s case, bear ample dividends of 
future peace and wealth and happiness to heal the wounds of war. 

Virginia’s Plea. 

But friendly messages, however sincere, cannot salvage the wreckage of 
world-wide war, not can memorials to the dead, however imposing, heal the 
wounds and solve the problems of the living. For love is barren and friend¬ 
ship but an empty word if they are not translated into practical helpfulness. 

Let me, therefore, representing not only my own beloved State and the 
thinking millions of America, but the heart and hope of a troubled world, 
add to our words of love this urgent plea— That the English-Speaking nations 
of the world, so recently united in war, unite again for the more complex 
tasks of peace, and in closest and most unselfish co-operation, enter at once 
upon a joint program of world leadership and reconstruction. 

Never has the world been so full of human misery. Never have the 
cries of the suffering risen from so many lands in so many languages in such 
a chorus of universal pain. Never have so many nations groaned and 
staggered under such intolerable burdens of poverty and debt and famine 
and disease. 

And never have war’s hellish cruelties bred such a world-wide harvest 
of devilish hatreds. From the lofty heroisms and self-sacrifice of three 
years ago, the nations have slidden back into the old foul mire of isolation 
and jealousy and savage greed, while the rampant nationalism of today 



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DR. HENRY LOUIS SMITH 

President Washington and Lee University 
Chairman representing His Excellency the Governor 





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seems rather aggressive hatred of another's land than love and self-sacrifice 
for one's own. 

Never lias the complex machinery of civilization been so completely 
broken down, its governments shattered, its institutions dissolved, its ancient 
creeds and standards abandoned. 

garth’s leaders are dismayed and bewildered, its ignorant millions every¬ 
where in hysterical and unreasoning revolt. 

Our modern civilization, tottering on the brink of the abyss, cries aloud 
for sympathy and practical help, for wise and firm restraint, for enlightened 
and unselfish leadership. 

In our present period of selfish nationalism and moral reaction it has 
actually become the fashion to defend brute selfishness with a protective 
armor of cynicism, and to sneer at international altruism as mawkish senti¬ 
mentality. 

As an active participant in the great movement, I positively affirm that 
it was neither hate nor fear that swept our peace-loving nation into war, 
but a tidal wave of moral indignation that would not allow us to stand idly 
by and see civilization murdered before our eyes. Speaking in behalf of a 
hundred thousand other American parents who gave their sons to the supreme 
sacrifice, and of five million more who, with equal consecration, risked the 
same irreparable loss, I declare that we sent our sons not to protect America 
but to rescue humanity. From months of intimate contact with young 
Americans training daily for the battlefields of Europe, I can confidently 
assert of our American college boys that they crossed the ocean with the 
consecrated zeal of crusaders to the rescue of the holy sepulchre. 

Those were days when selfishness and greed disappeared in the pure 
white flame of an altar fire. Would God that the English-speaking nations 
might rise again and forever to those lofty heights of international co¬ 
operation for the common good! 

Long since has mankind learned the value of the Golden Rule in the 
crowded life of a community; that selfish individualism defeats its own 
ends; that sacrifice for others enriches both giver and receiver. 

We are now learning in a thousand forms of co-operative industry that 
the Golden Rule is also good business, that selfish and self-seeking in¬ 
dividualism is the road to failure, that friendly co-operation increases the 
productivity and happiness of all. 

Why should these priceless lessons, learned at the cost of long years of 
individual and business warfare, be thrown aside in the fields of inter¬ 
national politics? 

Why should the English-speaking nations, with a wrecked world to be 
rebuilt, stand idly and selfishly and ineffectively apart till the fires of 
anarchy make their task impossible? Surely never in human history has an 
imperial race been confronted with such a combination of manifest fitness 
and sublime opportunity. 

Even amid the devastation of the world war, not a single English-speaking 
nation has seen its government overthrown, its territory ravaged, or its eco- 



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nomic machinery wrecked by revolution. As a group they are industrially 
more able to rebuild the world than ever in their history. 

They are today incomparably the wealthiest group of nations in the 
history of the world. In spite of their individual debts and losses they 
probably hold more wealth at their disposal today than before the war— 
wealth which, if wisely invested, could both lift a bankrupt world into 
profitable production and at the same time still further enrich its owners. 

Their power today in world politics is as conspicuous as their wealth. 
If united in a common purpose no power on earth could seriously hinder, far 
less successfully oppose, their joint program. And they are not only at peace 
with each other, but are warm friends and recent allies, with a common 
language for immediate and universal inter-communication. 

They are also, as a group, the most enlightened, scientific, and pro¬ 
gressive of all the nations of the earth, owning and controlling the great 
inventions which have given to mere man almost supernatural powers. 

With a common racial kinship, a common religion, and similar ideals of 
character and conduct, obeying the same general code of laws, accustomed 
to the same modes of self-government, and utilizing the same methods of 
business organization, they constitute today the most homogeneous group of 
nations ever known on earth. 

Their instinct for justice and fair play, their universal capacity for 
sympathy and pity, their habitual generosity and regard for the weak, their 
religion of brotherhood and unselfish service, and their long and successful 
experience in guiding and developing backward races—all these, as if by 
the planning of divine wisdom, have especially fitted the Anglo-Saxon nations 
for rehabilitating a wrecked and bewildered world. 

But civilization’s worst malady today is not its huge debts, its staggering 
losses, or its mere economic disorganization. It is Bolshevism, the tyranny 
of the unintelligent, the revival of the devil-doctrine that might makes 
right, if it be only this time the might of the many against the few. This 
is the disease, epidemic and contagious, that now threatens its very life 
and a clear conception of its nature and origin will prove that none but the 
Anglo-Saxon nations can now arrest its fatal progress. 

Our human civilization, working its way against human greed and sel¬ 
fishness, is like some mighty sailing vessel striving to reach port in the 
teeth of the wind, yet compelled to utilize for its forward motion the very 
forces whose constant pressure it must oppose and overcome. In such a case 
direct progress is impossible. Like a vast pendulum the ship must sweep 
back and forth, always approaching its true path with such accumulated 
momentum as to leave it forever unless the wisdom and skill of the mariners 
can again halt its progress and change its direction. 

Thus for four hundred years, gathering irresistible momentum, modern 
civilization has been swinging from the intolerable despotism of the middle 
ages toward universal democracy. Amid world-wide tumult and incessant 
revolt, the power hitherto wielded by the few has been steadily transferred 
to the many in ever widening circles. As long as the diffusion of intelligence 
and morality kept pace with this rapid diffusion of power, the sum total 



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of human welfare and happiness steadily increased with the progress of 
democracy till the very name became a religion. 

But the furious actions and reactions of the world war checked all the 
processes of education and religion, unchained everywhere the devils of hate 
and greed and cruelty, and hurled the millions back toward savagery, while 
at the same time by shattering all forms and institutions of human authority 
it transferred to these unprepared millions the fatal gifts of power without 
knowledge and liberty without self-control. 

This is the darkest cloud on the world’s horizon today, this is the deadly 
fear that grips the stoutest heart—that the fate of Russia shall overtake our 
western world, that our blood-bought rights and liberties, the precious in¬ 
stitutions we have so painfully built, the priceless assets we have accumu¬ 
lated through toil and tears, shall be trampled into the mire by the ignorant 
and unthinking. 

In this imminent crisis the Anglo-Saxon nations, and these alone, are 
able to teach these groping and experimenting masses the true meaning of 
democracy. 

Their specialty is combining liberty with law, diffusing intelligence 
among all classes, subordinating military to civil authority, and training 
all to attend their ends by argument rather than force, while they alone, 
of all earth’s races, have the present power to arrest the processes of de¬ 
struction and hold these restless millions in check till they and their nascent 
governments have gained experience and stability. 

We boast of our Anglo-Saxon capacity for organization. Wliy not use 
it for this most stupendous of all tasks? 

We are proud of our economic wisdom and scientific efficiency. Why 
shall we go on talking war and building battleships for a world that is 
homeless and naked and famine-stricken? Why not prove our claims and 
fill our coffers by manufacturing and distributing what earth’s millions want? 

We claim to lead the world in the difficult art of ordered and law-abiding 
self-government. Why can we not teach and guide these bewildered millions 
and save them from impending self-destruction? 

Amid these stately memorials of our heroic dead who gave their lives 
for others, let Christian England and Christian America, with unshaken con¬ 
fidence in the ultimate triumph of righteousness, re-dedicate themselves to 
the advancement of human welfare. 

That increasing intercommunication should increase international hatred, 
that the gains of research and the wonders of invention should be forever 
prostituted to the arts of murder, that we should bankrupt ourselves paying 
war’s dread tuition fees of blood and tears and taxes, yet with childish 
obstinacy refuse to learn her lesson, that we should with endless and futile 
toil save and build that war may waste and destroy, and stagger to our 
daily tasks under its hellish and unnecessary burdens, that we should for¬ 
ever rear our homes and cities for the torch and our precious children for 
the slaughter-pen—this is the sum of all human folly and wickedness. 

It is unreasonable, unthinkable, intolerable; and with the help of our 
newly enfranchised womanhood shall yet be made impossible. 



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The Right Honorable, the EARL OF CURZON 
K. G., G. C. S. /., G. C. I. E. 






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The art of co-operative self-government in and among our huge and 
crowded populations shall yet emerge from its crude and experimental in¬ 
fancy. Our giant newborn democracies shall yet outgrow this child-era of 
unreasoning fickleness and credulous ignorance and infantile hysteria, and 
become mature and sane and wise and self-controlled. 

The present clouds and darkness are the morning not the evening twi¬ 
light of our human civilization. In spite of morning clouds and morning 
storms and the crude incompleteness of morning work, the spirit of national 
friendship and co-operation is working its daily miracles among the hearts 
of men, and this old earth of ours, battle-scarred, crime-stained, tear-drenched, 
tempest-tossed, and never more tempest-tossed and tear-drenched than now. 
is yet rolling her darkened continents out of our present hatreds and horrors 
toward that blessed, tho far-off nopnday, when love and brotherhood shall 
be the law of human life and sacrifice and service the test and measure of 
human greatness. 



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Address of 

THE RIGHT HONORABLE, THE EARL OF CURZON, 

K. G., G. C. S. /., G. G. 1. E., Accepting Virginia's Gift. 

I suppose that the features of Washington as depicted in that historic 
statue—features so calm, so dignified, so noble—are better known than the 
form and features of any man in the world, with the possible exception of 
the first Napoleon. Probably more speeches have been made about Washing¬ 
ton than about any human being who ever lived, with the possible exception 
of Bobby Burns. No one would have hated this more than Washington 
himself. 

Why do we as Englishmen gladly welcome the statue of Washington? 
It is because he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen 
who ever lived; because though he fought us and vanquished us, he was 
fighting for ideals and principles which were as sacred to us as they were 
to the American people, and which were embedded in the very fibers of our 
common race. The defeat that he inflicted upon us was our gain; he laid 
the foundations of a structure which we could never have laid, and which 
required for its accomplishment the genius of an emancipated race. One 
of the remarkable things in reading the history of Washington was that 
his merits were recognized by Englishmen even in his lifetime. I have 
always thought it a moving thing that when the great man died and the 
news of his death was borne across the waters, the British fleet flying at 
anchor lowered their flags to half-mast in honor of the illustrious dead. 

What was it that made this man one of the greatest personalities of 
all time? The answer lay in his personality and in his achievement. His 
personality represented integrity of character, nobility of soul, modesty and 
dignity of demeanor, and sagacity of judgment in a degree rarely combined 
in any human being. To deal only with his political achievements, Wash¬ 
ington created a government and made a nation. He became ruler not by 
birth or inheritance, not by accident; not by right of conquest, but by the 
free choice of a unanimous people. Rarely, if ever, had there been a nobler 
life, rarely if ever had there been a more comely or more gracious death. 

Washington found himself in Trafalgar Square alongside the fiery Napier, 
the noble-minded Havelock, the heroic Gordon; and the glorious Nelson looked 
down upon the wonderful gathering. If the spirits of the departed could 
revivify and reimbue the bronze or the marble effigies, if in the stillness 
of the night they could hold converse, what a symposium there would be! 
Three gave their lives for their country, one added a province to a great 
empire, the other added a great empire to the world. Of each it could be 
said that the mainspring of his life and action was duty; of all of them it 
could be said that their lives enriched the records of mankind. 

It is a mark of the fact that the two branches of the great English- 
speaking race are now and henceforth indissolubly one. It is now more 




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than a hundred years since we last fought, and that conflict was one of 
which none of us are proud and of which some of us are very much ashamed. 
We can never fight again. I should like to add that we can never quarrel 
again. We ought never to quarrel again. The idea is such that if anybody 
got up on a public platform and uttered it in this country he would be 
hooted from the place. I believe and hope that the same sentiments pre¬ 
vail in your country. But not merely can your nation and mine engage never 
to fight and never to quarrel; we can do a great deal to prevent other 
nations from fighting. That, I submit, is the main function and duty that 
lies upon us in the future. It is by the example we set, by the common 
sacrifices that we have endured and are prepared to endure again, by the 
friendly counsel and co-operation of our ambassadors and statesmen, by the 
resolute determination of our people, by the influence of the press of both 
countries—and would that greater restraint were sometimes put upon it, 
whether it be on one side or the other—it is by these influences that we 
should endeavor to see that the peace of the world is insured. It is a 
great and powerful weapon that is in the hands of these two great nations, 
and if our use of it is inspired by the temperate judgment, the lofty nobility 
of soul, and the unselfish purpose of George Washington, we ought to be 
able to use that weapon for the inestimable advantage of mankind. 



Entertainment 








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The daily programmes ivere as follows: 

Saturday, 25th June, 1921 

1:00 P. M. Luncheon at the CaHton fclotel. 

2:30 P. M. Departure from Carlton Hotel for Hampton Court Palace. 
3:00 P. M. Arrival at Hampton Court Palace. 

The party will be met at Hampton Court Palace by Mr. 
A. Preedy. Mr. Ernest Law will conduct the party around 
the Palace. 


4:30 P. M. Departure from Hampton Court Palace. 

6:45 P. M. Dinner at Carlton Hotel. 

8:15 P. M. Attend performance of “The League of Nations,” at the 
new Oxford theatre. 


Sunday, 26th June, 1921 

10:15 A. M. Attend morning service at Westminster Abbey. 


Monday, 27th June, 1921 

10:30 A. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for Buckingham Palace. 
11:00 A. M. Reception by His Majesty, the King, at Buckingham 
Palace. 


12:00 Noon. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for Windsor by the 
following route: 


Pall Mall 

The Mall 

Constitution Hill 

Hyde Park Corner 

Knightsbridge 

High street, Kensington 

Hammersmith road 


Hammersmith broadway 

Chiswick road 

Buntford 

Hounslow 

Staines 

Old Windsor 


1:00 P. M. Arrival at Windsor. 

1:15 P. M. Luncheon at the White Hart Hotel. 

2:30 P. M. Visit Windsor Castle. 

The party will be conducted around the Castle by Mr. 
G. Miles, Inspector of the Castle. 


4:00 P. M. Visit Eton College. 

5:00 P. M. Departure from Eton College for London by the following 
route: 


Slough Hounslow 

Cranford (Proceeding then as above.) 



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6 :00 P. M. Arrival at Carlton Hotel. 

Dinner by Lady Markham, at 47 Portland Place, W. I. 


Tuesday, 28th June, 1921 

9:30 A. M. Departure from Carlton Hotel for the Tower of London 
by the following route: 

Strand St. Paul’s Cathedral 

Fleet street Mansion House 


10:00 A. M. Arrival at the Tower of London. 

Inspection of the Tower. 

11:30 A. M. Departure from the Tower of London for the Carlton 
Hotel by the following route: 

Mansion House Oxford street 

Cheapside Regent street 

Holborn 


12 :00 Noon. Arrival at the Carlton Hotel. 

12:15 P. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for York House. 

12:30 P. M. Reception by H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, at York House. 
1:15 for 1:30 P. M. Luncheon by the English-Speaking Union at the 
Hyde Park Hotel. 

(The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M. P., in the 
chair.) 


4:00 P. M. Departure from Carlton Hotel for Admiral’s House. 

(Near Hampstead Tube station.) 

4:15 P. M. Tea with the Hon. John and Mrs. Fortescue, Admiral’s 
House, Hampstead. 

7 :30 for 8 :00 P. M. Dinner by the Pilgrim’s Club at the Hotel Victoria. 


Wednesday, 29th June, 1921 

9:00 A. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for Cambridge by the 
following route: 

Finchley Stevenage 

Barnet Baldock 

Hatfield Royston 

11:00 A. M. Arrival at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 

The party will be received by the Vice-Chancellor of 
the University of Cambridge (Dr. Peter Giles, Master of 
Emmanuel College, Cambridge). 

Dr. Giles will conduct the party around the University 
Library. 



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TRAFALGAR SQUARE 

Nelson Monument, London, England—also National Gallery 











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1:00 P. M. Luncheon with the Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. Giles in the 
Picture Gallery, Emmanuel College. 

The following points of interest in Cambridge will be 
visited: 

King’s College Chapel St. John’s College 

Queen’s College Christ’s College 

Clare College The Backs 

Trinity College 

4:30 P. M. Departure from Cambridge for London by the above route. 

6:30 P. M. Arrival at the Carlton Hotel. 

Thursday, 30th June, 1921 

12:00 Noon. Unveiling Ceremony of the replica of the Houdon Statue 
of George Washington in Trafalgar Square. 

(Entrance to the reserved enclosure and room via the 
east gate of the National Gallery.) 

Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of the Washington 
and Lee University, representing the Governor of Virginia, 
will present the gift. 

The Earl Curzon, of Kedleston, K. G., G. C. S. I., 
G. C. I. E., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will 
accept the gift on behalf of HD Majesty’s government. 

12:40 P. M. Miss Judith Brewer will perform the unveiling ceremony. 

1:00 for 1:15 P. M. Government luncheon at the Carlton Hotel. 

(The Right Hon., the Lord Lee of Fareham, G. B. E., 
K. C. B., in the chair.) 

4 :15 P. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for Speaker’s Court. 

4:30 P. M. Tea with the Right Hon., the Speaker, in the Speaker’s 
Library. 

The gentlemen of the party will subsequently be con¬ 
ducted to the Distinguished Strangers’ Gallery of the House 
of Commons. 

Dinner by Lady Astor. 

Friday, 1st July, 1921 

11:00 A. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for the Guildhall by 
the following route: 

Strand Cannon street 

Fleet street Queen street 

St. Paul’s Cathedral King street 



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11.30 A. M. Visit Guildhall, where the delegation will be received by 
Sir Bannister Fletcher. 


The following places will be inspected: 
The Library The Art Gallery 


1:15 P. M. Departure for the Mansion House. 

1:30 P. M. Luncheon with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. 

The following route will be taken on the return 
journey: 

Cheapside New Oxford street 

Newgate street Shaftsbury avenue 

Holborn Haymarket 


4:15 P. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for the American Uni¬ 
versity Union, 50 Russell Square. 


4:30 P. M. 

5:30 P. M. 
7 :00 P. M. 
8:15 P. M. 


Tea at the American University Union (Dr. T. G. Mac- 
Lean). 

Return to the Carlton Hotel. 

Dinner at the Carlton Hotel. 

Attend performance of the Russian Ballet at Princes 
Theatre. 


Saturday, 2nd July, 1921 

11:00 A. M. Departure from the Carlton Hotel for Maidenhead by the 
following route: 

Hammersmith Slough 

Brentford Taplow 

Colnbrook 


1:00 P. M. 


2:00 P. M. 


4:00 P. M. 


4:30 P. M. 


5:30 P. M. 
7:00 P. M. 
9:00 P. M. 
10:30 P. M. 


Luncheon at the Riviera Hotel, Maidenhead. 

Departure from Maidenhead for Henley via Hurley. 
Henley Regatta. 

Departure from Henley for Taplow by the following route: 
Maidenhead Hurley 

Tea at Lady Astor’s house, Cliveden, where the party will 
be received by Mr. and Mrs. Phipps. 

Departure from Cliveden for Maidenhead. 

Dinner at the Riviera Hotel, Maidenhead. 

Departure from Maidenhead for London by the above route. 

Arrival at the Carlton Hotel. 



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Sunday, 3rd July, 1921 

10:15 A. M. Attend morning service at St. Paul’s. 
3:00 P. M. Tour of London. 

Monday, 4th July, 1921 

10:00 A. M. Departure. 



Historical Data 


C orrespondence 



Legislative Enactments. 

An ACT to provide for celebration of a century of peace among the English- 

speaking peoples. 

Approved March 25, 1904. 

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the seven¬ 
teenth day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, being the 
one hundreth anniversary of the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of 
Peace between the United States and Great Britain, commonly known as 
the Treaty of Ghent, be observed in this State as a day of thanksgiving and 
prayer, and for that purpose the said day shall be a public holiday. 

2. That, throughout this State, at twelve o’clock noon, on the said 
seventeenth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for the 
space of five minutes thereafter, all travel shall cease; all labor, business, 
recreation and active employment shall be suspended; and all persons within 
the territory of the State are recommended then to address their minds and 
hearts to thanksgiving for the continuance of peace for the past hundred 
years and to pray that peace may still endure. 

Joint Resolution. 

To provide for a replica of the Houdon Statue of George Washington, 
and provide for the appointment of a Commission to present the same to 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Whereas, The Commonwealth of Virginia is the owner of molds from 
the Houdon Statue of George Washington in the rotunda of the State 
Capitol, which were made for the purpose of reproducing said statue so 
that a replica might be placed in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol 
of the United States at Washington, which has been accordingly done; and 

Whereas, Said moulds can be used only by the authority of the Gen¬ 
eral Assembly of Virginia, and are now in the custody of the manufacturers 
thereof, subject to the control of the General Assembly; and 

Whereas, Unbroken peace and good will has existed between the United 
States and Great Britian for more than a century, and the people of Vir¬ 
ginia entertain the warmest friendship for the people of their mother 
country; 

Notv, therefore, As a token of esteem and good will 

Be it resolved, By the House of Delegates of Virginia, the Senate 
concurring, that a replica of said statue from said moulds be presented, 
aforesaid, to the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland. 

2. That a commission, to be composed of the Governor, or such person 
or persons as he may name to represent him, the Lieutenant Governor, and 
the Speaker of the House of Delegates, or such person or persons as they 
may designate to represent them, be, and the same is hereby constituted, 
with power and authority to have made from the moulds a replica in 
bronze of the said Houdon Statue of George Washington, and to present the 
same on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United Kingdom 
of Great Britian and Ireland. 


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Resolved , That the Clerk of the House of Delegates he and is hereby 
authorized to expend a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars out of the 
contingent fund of the House for the purpose of cabling the United States 
Ambassador at the Court of St. James the Joint Resolution to provide for 
the presentation of a replica of the Houdon Statue. 

Extract from Appropriation Bill. 

See Acts of Assembly, 1914, page 413. 

To pay the cost of making and expenses in presenting to the gov¬ 
ernment of Great Britain a replica, or copy in bronze, of the 
Houdon Statue of George Washington, to be made from the 
moulds now owned by the State, under the direction of, and 
to be presented by a commission composed of the Governor, 

Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates, or 
such person or persons, as they may each designate to repre¬ 
sent them, and the Clerk of the House of Delegates, who shall 
also act as Secretary of the Commission, four thousand dollars..? 4,000.0b 



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John W. Williams, Esquire, 

Clerk, House of Delegates, 

Richmond, Va. 

Sir : 

This department has received from the American Ambassador at Lon¬ 
don, by cable, the request that it forward to you the following: 

“I have unofficially sounded the foreign office in the sense of your tele¬ 
gram of the twenty-first instant informing me of the passage by the House 
and Senate of the State of Virginia of a resolution to present to the British 
nation a replica of the Houdon Statue of Washington. 

“Sir Edward Grey has expressed the liveliest satisfaction at this dis¬ 
position on the part of Virginia and I await instructions, through the 
Secretary of State, to make the formal offer which I am sure will be most 
appreciatively accepted at the first meeting of the Cabinet.” 

The department will be glad to take such action in the matter as the 
State of Virginia may request. 

I am, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

For the Secretary of State: 

J. B. MOORE, 

Counselor. 


London, February 23, 1914. 

House of Delegates, 

Richmond, Va. 

Favorable preliminary answer sent through Department State. Con¬ 
gratulations. 

PAGE. 


Department of State, 
Washington, March 3, 1914. 

The Clerk of the House of Delegates, 

Richmond, Va. 

Sir : 

In a confidential telegram to this department the American Ambassador 
at London requests the department to inform you that the British Secretary 
of State for Foreign Affairs has conveyed to him orally the appreciative 
acceptance by the British Prime Minister of the replica of Houdon’s Statue 
of Washington, which the State of Virginia desires to present to the British 
government. 

The Ambassador adds that the British government was touched by the 
cordial terms of, and was greatly pleased with, the resolution of the House 
of Delegates; and that on receipt from the Virginian authorities, through 
the Department of State and the American Ambassador at London, of a 





42 Presentation of Copy of Houdoris statue of Washington 


definite written offer by the State of Virginia, written acceptance will be 
made. 

I am Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

For the Secretary of State: 

J. B. MOORE, 

Counselor. 

093.11141 /19. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

House of Delegates, 
Richmond, March 21, 1914. 

J. B. Moore, Esq., 

Counselor, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

Reply to your courteous communications in relation to the presenta¬ 
tion by Virginia to Great Britain of a replica of Houdon’s Statue of Wash¬ 
ington has been delayed until the General Assembly had made the necessary 
appropriation and the formal offer as indicated in your letter of third instant. 
The Governor will communicate with your department upon the subject. 
I am, 

Very respectfully, 

JNO. W. WILLIAMS, 

Clerk, House of Delegates. 


Resolved by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the 
Governor be and he is hereby requested to transmit to the Secretary of 
State of the United States that portion of the resolution agreed to on 
February 20, 1914, which was cabled to the American Ambassador at Lon¬ 
don, and the Secretary of State of the United States is requested to com¬ 
municate the same to the government of Great Britain and to ascertain its 
wishes in relation thereto. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 
Richmond, Va., March 26, 1914. 

Hon. William Jennings Bryan, 

Secretary of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

My dear Sir: 

As you have already been officially informed by the Clerk of the House 
of Delegates, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted a joint resolution 








B. F. BUCHANAN 

Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia 







44 Presentation of Copy of Itoudon’s Statue of Washing ton 


providing that a replica, or copy in bronze, of the Houdon Statue of General 
George Washington should be presented from the Commonwealth of Vir¬ 
ginia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Replying to the tender, which was made by cable through your office 
while the General Assembly was in session, the Clerk of the House of 
Delegates was notified by the Honorable J. B. Moore, counselor of your 
department, that he was in receipt of a cablegram from the American 
Ambassador in London to the effect that the liveliest satisfaction had been 
expressed by Sir Edward Grey at this disposition on the part of Virginia, 
and that the Ambassador awaited instructions through the Secretary of State 
to make the formal offer, which he was sure would be appreciatively ac¬ 
cepted at the first meeting of the Cabinet. 

By a further concurrent resolution, the General Assembly directed me, 
as Governor of Virginia, to transmit to you that portion of the resolution, 
agreed to on February 20, 1914, which was cabled to the American Am¬ 
bassador at London, with the request that the Secretary of State communi¬ 
cate the same to the government of Great Britain, and to ascertain its 
wishes in relation thereto. 

I am, therefore, enclosing you herewith the resolution referred to, with 
the request that you transmit same through the regular channels to the 
government of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Yours very truly, 

H. C. STUART, 

Governor. 


Department of State, 
Washington, April 2, 1914. 

His Excellency , 

The Governor of Virginia, 

Richmond. 

Sir : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th 
ultimo, in further relation to the desire of the State of Virginia to present 
to the British government a replica of Houdon's Statue of Washington. 

In reply, I have the honor to say that, with reference to the previous 
correspondence, it has afforded the department pleasure to transmit copies 
of your letter and of its enclosure to the American Ambassador at London, 
with instructions formally to communicate to the British government the 
offer therein made. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

For the Secretary of State: 

ROBERT LANSING, 

Counselor. 


093.11141 /21. 




to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 


45 


Department of State, 
Washington, May 15, 1914. 

77 is Excellency, 

The Governor of Virginia, 

Richmond. 

Sir : 

Referring to previous correspondence concerning the desire of the State 
of Virginia to present to the British government a replica of Iloudon’s Statue 
of Washington, with special reference to your letter of March 26, 1914, I 
have the honor to enclose a copy of a despatch on the subject from the 
American Ambassador at London, covering a copy of a note from the foreign 
office making formal acceptance of this gift. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

For the Secretary of State: 

(Signed) ROBERT LANSING, 

Counselor. 


Embassy of the United States of America, 

London, April 29, 1914. 

The Honorable , 

The Secretary of State, 

Washington. 

Sir : 

Replying to the department’s instruction, No. 196, of April 1, 1914, with 
regard to the offer of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland of a replica of the Houdon Statue of Wash¬ 
ington, I have the honor to report that immediately on receipt of the in¬ 
struction under acknowledgment, I addressed a formal offer of the statue to 
Ilis Majesty’s government, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 
and am now in receipt of a note, dated April 24, 1914, a copy of which is 
herewith enclosed, from Sir Edward Grey, accepting this gift on behalf of 
his government and expressing their high appreciation for the gift and the 
sentiments which prompted its offer. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) WALTER HINES PAGE, 


Foreign Office, 

London, April 24, 1914. 

Your Excellency: 

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 14th in¬ 
stant, enclosing copy of the Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the 
State of Virginia, to the effect that a replica of the Houdon Statue of 





46 Presentation of Copy of Houdon’s Statue of Washington 


George Washington should be presented by the Commonwealth of Virginia 
to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

In thanking Your Excellency for this communication, I beg you will be 
so good as to cause to be conveyed to the General Assembly of Virginia 
the acceptance by His Majesty’s government of this statue together with an 
expression of their high appreciation for the gift which it is proposed to 
present to them on this occasion of the one hundreth year of peace be¬ 
tween Great Britain and the United States. 

His Majesty’s government also desire to say that they have been much 
gratified by the words of friendship and esteem contained in the resolution 
and most sincerely reciprocate the sentiments therein expressed. 

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, 

Your Excellency’s most obedient, humble servant, 

(Signed) E. GREY. 

His Excellency, 

The Honourable W. H. Page. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 
Richmond, May 16, 1914. 

Hon. Robert Lansing, Counsellor , 

Department of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 15th, 
enclosing copies of despatch from the American Ambassador at London, and 
a copy of the note from the foreign office of Great Britain, making formal 
acceptance of the gift of a copy of the Houdon Statue of General Washing¬ 
ton from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland. 

Very truly yours, 

H. C. STUART, 

Governor. 


British Embassy, 
Washington, September 16, 1914. 

My dear Mr. Wilmer: 

V hile I w as in London I went into the question of a position for 
Houdon s Statue of George Washington which Virginia is giving to us. As 
a result of conversations with Lionel Earle, Secretary to the Office of 
Works, and others, a position has been provisionally selected in Trafalgar 
Square, opposite the main entrance to the National Gallery. The figure 
would stand facing the square inside the railings which surround the build- 
ing, and sufficiently raised on a base above them to afford an uninterrupted 





to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 


47 



RICHARD L. BREWER, Jr. 
Speaker of the House of Delegates 





48 Presentation of Copy of Houdon's Statue of Washington 


view of the statue. In selecting Trafalgar Square the authorities were 
guided by the consideration that it is not only a very beautiful site and is 
famous for its statue of Nelson, but is also one of the most frequented of 
London’s public places. I am sending you a drawing showing the position 
which the monument would occupy in relation to the National Gallery. 

I should be glad if you would call on the Governor of Virginia and ex¬ 
plain these circumstances to him with my compliments. You should ask 
His Excellency whether the proposed arrangements meet the views of the 
Commonwealth of Virginia. 

I should also be glad to know 7 when it is proposed to send the statue, 
in order that arrangements may be made for receiving it on arrival in 
England. 

I am, my dear Mr. Wilmer, 

(Signed) CECIL SPRING RICE. 

A. P. Wilmer, Esquire , 

British Vice-Consul, 

Richmond, Va. 


British Embassy, 
Washington, September 24, 1914. 

My dear Mr. Wilmer: 

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 19tli instant, 
and to express the pleasure I feel that the site selected for Washington’s 
Statue should have given so much satisfaction in Virginia. 

I perfectly understand the desire to postpone giving the statue until 
after the war and the motives which prompted the suggestion will be fully 
appreciated in England. I have informed the authorities at home of the 
proposal, and I feel sure they will readily concur in it. 

I am, my dear Mr. Wilmer, 

Yours sincerely, 

(Signed) CECIL SPRING RICE. 

A. P. Wilmer, Esquire, 

British Vice-Consul, 

Richmond, Va. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor's Office, 
Richmond, December 2, 1914. 

His Excellency, The Right Honourable, 

Sir Cecil Spring Rice, G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., 

British Embassy, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

In reply to your recent communications, I, have the honor to advise you 
that the Commission appointed on the part of this State to present a copy 
of the Houdon Statue of General George Washington to the United Kingdom 





to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\ 


49 


of Great Britain and Ireland is much pleased with, and liearitly approves 
of, the selection of Trafalgar Square as the site for the statue. 

The time for the presentation will he left for future determination. 

I have the honour to remain, 

Your Excellency’s obedient servant, 

H. C. STUART, 

Governor. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 
Richmond, February 1 , 1921. 

Honorable Bainbridge Colby, 

Secretary of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

My dear Mr. Secretary : 

In 1914 arrangements were made by the State Department, through the 
British Embassy, for the presentation by the Commonwealth of Virginia to 
the British government, of a copy of the Houdon Statue of Washington. 
The exigencies of war caused a postponement of the actual presentation, 
and the Commission constituted by the General Assembly of Virginia is now 
ready to carry forward the original design, and are arranging to sail for 
England after June 10, 1921. The Commission consists of— 

Westmoreland Davis, Governor of Virginia, 

B. F. Buchanan, Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, 

Richard L. Brewer, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, 

John W. Williams, Clerk of the House of Delegates. 

I deeply regret that the duties of my office make it impossible for me 
to leave Virginia at this time, and I have, therefore, designated Dr. Edwin 
A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, to represent me.* 

It is my understanding that the arrangements for the presentation have 
been cared for, but I. desire to acquaint you with the appointment, purpose 
and personnel of the Commission, and to bespeak for them your kind offices 
on their mission to England. 

Yours very truly, 

WESTMORELAND DAVIS, 

Governor of Virginia. 


Department of State, 
Washington, February 9, 1921. 

The Honorable, 

The Governor of Virginia, 

Richmond. 

Sir : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of February 1, 
1921, in which, with reference to previous correspondence concerning the 


* Subsequently, Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee University, 
Lexington, Virginia, was designated to represent the Governor in place of Dr. Alderman. 






50 Presentation of Copt/ of Iloudo ns iStatue of W as king ton 


arrangements made in 1914 for the presentation by the Commonwealth of 
Virginia to the British government of a replica of the Houdon Statue of 
Washington, you inform me that the Commission constituted by the General 
Assembly of Virginia is now ready to carry forward the original design and 
that the Commission expects to sail for England some time after June 10, 
1921. 

In reply I have the honor to say that it affords me pleasure to send a 
copy of your letter to the American Ambassador at London, and to instruct 
him to bring the contents thereof to the attention of the foreign office. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

BAINBRIDGE COLBY. 


Department of State, 

The Honorable, Washington, April 21, 1921. 

The Governor of Virginia, 

7 * 

Richmond. 

Sir : 

Referring to your letter of February 1, 1921, in which, with reference 
to previous correspondence concerning the arrangements made in 1914 for 
the presentation by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the British govern¬ 
ment of a replica of the Houdon Statue of Washington, you announced that 
the Commission constituted by the General Assembly of Virginia was ready 
to carry forward the original design and that it was expected that the 
Commission would sail for England some time after June 10, 1921, I have 
now the honor to inform you of the receipt of a telegram, No. 307, of April 
14, 1921, from the American Embassy at London, in response to the depart¬ 
ment’s instruction of February 9th. 

The Embassy reports that it has been requested by the British govern¬ 
ment to transmit an invitation to the Commission to stay in London as the 
guests of the British government for eight days. 

I shall be glad to be informed of the reply which you desire shall be 
made to the British government’s invitation. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

CHARLES E. HUGHES. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 

Honorable Charles E. Hughes, Richmond, April 26, 1921. 

Secretary of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

Referring to your letter of April 21, 1921 (Di 093.11141/36) which con¬ 
veys to the Commission, constituted by the General Assembly of Virginia 





to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 



JOHN W. WILLIAMS 

Clerk of the House of Delegates and 
Keeper of the Rolls of Virginia 




Presentation of Copy of Houdon’s /Statue of II ashing ton 


52 


to present, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the British gov¬ 
ernment, a replica of the Houdon Statue of Washington, an invitation to stay 
in London as the guest of the British government for eight days, I am writ¬ 
ing to advise you that the Commission will sail on the S. S. Lapland, 
leaving New York, June 11, 1921, for Plymouth, and to request that you con¬ 
vey to the British government the acceptance by the Commission of the 
kind invitation to stay in London for the period of eight days. 

1 have the honor to be, 

Your obedient servant, 

WESTMORELAND DAVIS, 

Governor. 


Department of State, 
Washington, May 3, 1921. 

The Honorable, 

The Governor of Virginia, 

Richmond. 

Sir : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 20. 
1921, in which, in response to mine of April 21, you ask that the British 
government be informed of the acceptance of the invitation extended by it 
to the Commission to present to Great Britain a replica of the Houdon 
Statue of Washington to stay in London as guests of the British govern¬ 
ment for eight days. 

In reply, I have the honor to say that the American Charge d’ Affaires, 
ad interim, at London has been instructed to inform the foreign office of the 
acceptance by the Commission of the invitation, and that he has been ad¬ 
vised that the Commission will sail on the steamship Lapland, which is 
scheduled to leave New York June 11, 1921, for Plymouth. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

CHARLES E. HUGHES. 


COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 
Richmond, May 4, 1921. 

The Honorable , 

The Secretary of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

Referring to your letter of May 3, 1921 (Di. 093.11141 /37) advising me 
that the Embassy at London has informed the British foreign office of the 
acceptance of their invitation and the date of sailing of the Commission, has 
been received, for which you will accept my thanks. 

I am writing to express the hope of the Commission that the American 





to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 


Embassy in London will co-operate with the Virginia Commission in mak¬ 
ing the gift by Virginia of the Houdon Statue of Washington to the British 
nation a happy event in our national as well as our State life, and that this 
desire on the part of the Commission be communicated by you to the Ameri¬ 
can authorities in London. 

I have the honor to be, 

Your obedient servant, 

WESTMORELAND DAVIS, 

Governor. 


Department of State, 
Washington, May 10, 1921. 

The Honorable, 

The Governor of Virginia, 

Richmond. 

Sir: 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of May 4, 
1921, in which, in response to mine of the 3d instant, advising you that 
the American Embassy at London had informed the British foreign office 
of the acceptance of the invitation extended by it to the Virginia Commis¬ 
sion to stay in London for eight days as guests of the British government 
on the occasion of the presentation to Great Britain of the replica of the 
Houdon Statue of Washington, you express the hope of the Commission that 
the Embassy at London will co-operate with the Virginia Commission in 
the presentation of the statue. 

In reply, I have the honor to say that a copy of your letter has beer: 
sent to the Embassy and that it has been instructed to render every possible 
assistance in the matter. 

In this relation, I beg to enclose two copies of a despatch from the 
Embassy, forwarding a copy of a note from the foreign office extending the 
formal invitation. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

CHARLES E. HUGHES. 

Enclosures: 

From Great Britain, No. 4495, 

April 14, 1921. 


American Embassy, 

London, April 14, 1921. 

The Honorable, 

The Secretary of State, 

Washington. 

Sir : 

Referring to the department’s despatch, No. 1173, of February 9, 1921, 
and my telegram, No. 307, of today’s date, in connection with the presenta- 





54 Presentation of Copy of lloudoris Statue of Washington 


tion to Great Britain of a replica of the Houdon Statue of Washington, I 
have the honor to forward herewith copies of a note received today from 
the foreign office (No. A2317/203/45) transmitting, on behalf of the British 
government, an invitation to the members of the Commission to be the 
guests of the British government in London for a period of eight days for 
the purpose of effecting the presentation of the statue. 

I note that the Commission will sail on S. S. Lapland on June 11th, 
and I shall have the honor of communicating further with you as soon as 
information is received from the foreign office as to the arrangements for 
the dates and details of the visit. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

J. BUTLER WRIGHT. 


Foreign Office, S. W. I., 

12 tli April, 1921. 

Sir : 

With reference to Mr. Davis’ note, No. 93, of the 5th ultimo, relative 
to the proposed visit of the Virginia Commission for the presentation of a 
replica of Houdon’s Statue of George Washington to this nation, I have the 
honour to state that His Majesty’s Ambassador at Washington has been in¬ 
formed that the Commission will sail on S. S. Lapland on June 11th 
and that they desire that the presentation of the statue should be made on 
the 30th June. 

It will afford His Majesty’s government great pleasure to receive the 
visit of the Commission, and I should be much obliged if you would be 
good enough to convey to the members of the Commission an invitation to 
stay in London as the guests of His Majesty’s government for a period of 
eight days for the purpose of effecting the presentation of the statue. The 
proposed final dates and details of the visit are being arranged by the compe¬ 
tent departments of His Majesty’s government, and I shall not fail to in¬ 
form you as soon as these arrangements have been completed. In the mean¬ 
time I have the honour to request that you will transmit this information 
to your government and express the hope of His Majesty’s government that 
the visit of the Commission may be a pleasant and a memorable one. 

I have the honour to be, with high consideration, Sir, 

Your most obedient, humble servant, 

(For the Secretary of State), 

(Signed) R. SPERLING. 




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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 

Governor’s Office, 
Richmond, May 16, 1921. 

The Honorable, 

The Secretary of State, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir : 

Your letter of May 10, 1921, enclosing copies of despatches from the 
Embassy, forwarding a copy of a note from the foreign office extending 
formal invitation to the Virginia Commission that will present to Great 
Britain a replica of the Houdon Statue of Washington, has been received. 

The Virginia Commission will be gratified to know that the Embassy at 
London will co-operate with them in the performance of their mission. 

I have the honor to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

WESTMORELAND DAVIS, 

Governor. 







































































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